Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Coca Cola Bottling Co., 9696 Plank Rd., BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70811
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating an electric pallet jack that collided with another forklift. The employee's lower left foot was injured on the other forklift's forks.
The injured employee was on the lift gate of a trailer, while another employee was on the ground using controls to raise the lift gate. The injured employee's foot was extended past the platform of the lift gate, and as the lift gate got closer to the edge of the trailer, their toe was crushed and fractured.
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On September 15, 2021, at 9:50 PM, an employee was operating a ride-on pallet jack and fell off while navigating a turn. The pallet jack then struck the employee and pinned his ankles against a pallet. The employee was hospitalized for bilateral ankle fractures.
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